"'I Think Mick's Having a Hard Time. but I'm Sure He'll Find Someone Else to Be Unfaithful to Soon'; Cellulite? No Chance. Divorce? He'll Get over It. Does Nothing Faze Jerry Hall? Shane Watson Meets the Fabulous Texan, Who Is Back on the Stage in the Vagina Monologues" by Watson, Shane - The Evening Standard (London, England), September 4, 2001 | Online Research Library: Questia Byline: SHANE WATSON JERRY Hall is not one bit bothered about the whole cellulite thing. But after I mention the offending paparazzi shot (Saint Tropez beach, dimply thighs) for the third time, she leaps up from her circle seat at the New Ambassadors Theatre and hitches up her Christian Dior dress at the back to reveal a smooth, tanned, model thigh that is quite rumple free. "Do I have it? Maybe ah doo, liddle bit, liddle tiny bit of fat, maybe. I don't care. I thought it was a bit funny, you know.

You have to laugh." And she does, a girlish semi-cackle that's in unexpected contrast to that famously deep, drowsy, Texan voice that can slow down so far it sounds like she's going under. Jerry is better in the flesh. Her skin is glossy and golden - "I use olive oil all over" - and she has glittering blue eyes and a smile that I can't believe isn't advertising Pearl Drops, all curly lipped and wide and bright. In the 15 seconds it took her to slink down the passage to the stage door, swinging along in her short, black dress and scarlet cardigan, she was wolfwhistled, twice. We're here, in the theatre, because Jerry is performing in The Vagina Monologues, but really, of course, because Jerry is endlessly fascinating, with her mane of home-dyed, mucky-blonde hair, her relationship with Mick Jagger, her Southern-girl style, her 30-year modelling career. Does she feel the pressure to stay the perfect size 10 for ever? "No, I don't. I feel incredibly lucky to be so happy in my skin, and lucky to not mind about getting older.

It's a spiritual thing, heh heh!" What about plastic surgery? (Jerry favours a cantilevered dEcolletage, but her chest size is 34a, so it's mostly padding.) "I would never do that, nooo, I just wanna be healthy and live a really long time and look after my grandkids." Jerry Hall has become a kind of survivor role model in the manner of Princess Diana, the lovely girl who deserved better, the outsider who brought grace to a thoroughly difficult role and, in the process, joined the very short list of women who are loved by men and women alike. She was once described in a broadsheet newspaper as "an inspiration to wives everywhere". Best of all, two years ago she left Mick Jagger and achieved the almost impossible: an amicable divorce and a personal revival. She's played Mrs Robinson in The Graduate - to mixed reviews, OK, but there are plenty of others still interested. She has a Broadway show in the pipeline, a part in the next Merchant Ivory film, Merci Docteur Rey, and she's enrolled on an Open University course.

I wonder if the latter has anything to do with the drubbing she received when she was made a judge on the Whitbread panel in 1999? Jerry looks puzzled: "I don't think I got a drubbing." Well, there was a certain amount of bad press referring to the dumbing-down of literary prizes. "I didn't see that," she says flatly. "I don't feel I have to prove anything," and then she laughs one of her regular crackling laughs, just to show there are no hard feelings. Jerry has said in the past that she "doesn't remember bad things for long", plus, of course, there was the one about being "a lady in the parlour, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom". Around her, you are conscious that being a woman is a vocation, a responsibility tied up with looking good, pleasing everyone, and showing good manners at all times. Someone, at some point, back in Mesquite, Texas, before she left to be a model at 15, said: "Jerry, don't bore; pretty and vivacious is what we like." Her speech is peppered with references to how lucky and happy she is.

She smiles all the time, even when you are irritating her, and laughs on the beat, not because anything is particularly funny, but because she knows it lightens the mood, introduces a note of girlishness. You can't help feeling that after twentysomething years of living here, her Southern accent remains undiluted all the better to say: "I add-awe comedy - it's instant gradification", and follow through with a mane-tossing, throat-baring laugh that reminds you, if you're old enough, of the yowling vamp in the Bryan Ferry Stick Together video. … Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books "In Bed with Mick; He's Just Produced a Film, He's about to Release a Solo Album and, Now, He's 'Baring All' in a Fly-on-the-Wall Documentary.

Trouble Is, Says Lesley Garner, It's Only the Mick That Mick Jagger Wants Us to See" by Garner, Lesley - The Evening Standard (London, England), November 15, 2001 | Online Research Library: Questia Article excerpt Byline: LESLEY GARNER COOL people leave others in their wake, gasping. Cool people don't stop to explain. One reason cool people are cool is because they simply don't give a damn what anyone else thinks of them. For a very long time Mick Jagger has been a prince of cool. He set styles, did what he wanted, to whomever he chose, and paid later (often with some rather uncool legal squealing and kicking). When he gave interviews, journalists stumbled away, charmed but baffled by the mischievous smokescreen of mimicry and faux inarticulacy. Mick Jagger gave away only as little as he wanted to give. Which makes it all the more odd that, all of a sudden, that cool facade seems to be crumbling. The despair of interviewers is suddenly anybody's. Is Mick Jagger going through a midlife thaw? And, if so, who has turned on the heat?

There are plenty of reasons for Jagger's sudden availability. He has a new solo album, Goddess in the Doorway, and his record company is nervous about selling it to kids the age of Jagger's children, so they've set up a website. "Over the years," it says solemnly, "Mick Jagger has been many things ... rock superstar, sex symbol, cultural revolutionary, musical poet, tabloid subject and all around pop culture provocateur." A few steps ahead of Britney Spears then, but would you care if you were 15? Even Jagger's children think he's uncool. "My kids find me embarrassing all the time," he said. "They say, 'You have got totally embarrassing clothes on. You can't come to the school open day, not with those trousers on'." But Jagger is also trying to reach whole new audiences as a film producer. When his first film, Enigma, came out, he seemed to have given more interviews than the film's star, Kate Winslet, while still managing to be enigmatic, to offer more than he actually delivered. "I think movies in this country ... it's very complicated, complicated, and we could bang on about it for ever ...

but because English movies are made in English, it's a very strange animal, and the French movie industry is very different because it's very obviously French." Hmm. In his private life he's at a dangerous age, two years away from a bus pass, divorced from Jerry Hall, his partner of 24 years and linked with a whole series of girls in his daughters' age group, the very model of the kind of man he should be warning them against. There's nothing cool about being an old lech. In Being Mick, a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Jade is shown flinging her arms around him, laughing and wailing: "No girls younger than me, Dad. Please." But as her dad says, grinning, "I have the ordinary bohemian, artistic attitude to love and marriage." It's very charming, being an old bohemian, but it's Mick's view of himself. Being Mick is directed by Kevin McDonald, a respected documentary maker, but it is produced by Jagger's film production partner, Victoria Pearman, and it is a Jagged Films production, ie Mick. It may be fly-on-the-wall but you get the feeling that Mick has chosen, and decorated, all the walls.

Marianne Faithfull had a different view. "Any straight, uncomplicated action regarding emotional life is almost impossible for Mick to manage," she said. "He's very English in that 'I'm not allowed to feel it' way." Or, as Jerry Hall puts it: " I'm sure he'll find someone else to be unfaithful to soon. Poor Mick. He's got such lovely qualities. I hope he changes. He probably will. He's very smart. It's hard for him. He has this Dionysian thing going on, women throw themselves at him, really smart women. He's got this magnetic draw. He's really got something special." Ah yes. The Dionysian thing. Or, is it more a fertility God thing? " I seem to have got this big, extended family," he says bemused, as though he found them under gooseberry bushes, "and I adore them." But sometimes the adoration has come after disputing both the paternity and the price of fatherhood.

… Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details Newspapers Encyclopedia In bed with Mick | Daily Mail Online In bed with Mick by LESLEY GARNER, Evening Standard Cool people leave others in their wake, gasping. Cool people don't stop to explain. One reason cool people are cool is because they simply don't give a damn what anyone else thinks of them. For a very long time Mick Jagger has been a prince of cool. He set styles, did what he wanted, to whomever he chose, and paid later (often with some rather uncool legal squealing and kicking). When he gave interviews, journalists stumbled away, charmed but baffled by the mischievous smokescreen of mimicry and faux inarticulacy. Mick Jagger gave away only as little as he wanted to give. Which makes it all the more odd that, all of a sudden, that cool faÁade seems to be crumbling. The despair of interviewers is suddenly anybody's. Is Mick Jagger going through a midlife thaw?

And, if so, who has turned on the heat? There are plenty of reasons for Jagger's sudden availability. He has a new solo album, Goddess in the Doorway, and his record company is nervous about selling it to kids the age of Jagger's children, so they've set up a website. "Over the years," it says solemnly, "Mick Jagger has been many things ... rock superstar, sex symbol, cultural revolutionary, musical poet, tabloid subject and all around pop culture provocateur ." A few steps ahead of Britney Spears then, but would you care if you were 15? Even Jagger's children think he's uncool. "My kids find me embarrassing all the time," he said. "They say, 'You have got totally embarrassing clothes on. You can't come to the school open day, not with those trousers on'." But Jagger is also trying to reach whole new audiences as a film producer. When his first film, Enigma, came out, he seemed to have given more interviews than the film's star, Kate Winslet, while still managing to be enigmatic, to offer more than he actually delivered. "I think movies in this country ...

it's very complicatedand we could bang on about it for ever ... but because English movies are made in English, it's a very strange animal, and the French movie industry is very different because it's very obviously French." Hmm. In his private life he's at a dangerous age, two years away from a bus pass, divorced from Jerry Hall, his partner of 24 years and linked with a whole series of girls in his daughters' age group, the very model of the kind of man he should be warning them against. There's nothing cool about being an old lech. In Being Mick, a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Jade is shown flinging her arms around him, laughing and wailing: "No girls younger than me, Dad. Please." But as her dad says, grinning, "I have the ordinary bohemian, artistic attitude to love and marriage." It's very charming, being an old bohemian, but it's Mick's view of himself. Being Mick is directed by Kevin McDonald, a respected documentary maker, but it is produced by Jagger's film production partner, Victoria Pearman, and it is a Jagged Films production, ie Mick.

It may be fly-on-the-wall but you get the feeling that Mick has chosen, and decorated, all the walls. Marianne Faithfull had a different view. "Any straight, uncomplicated action regarding emotional life is almost impossible for Mick to manage," she said. "He's very English in that 'I'm not allowed to feel it' way." Or, as Jerry Hall puts it: " I'm sure he'll find someone else to be unfaithful to soon. Poor Mick. He's got such lovely qualities. I hope he changes. He probably will. He's very smart. It's hard for him. He has this Dionysian thing going on, women throw themselves at him, really smart women. He's got this magnetic draw. He's really got something special." Ah yes. The Dionysian thing. Or, is it more a fertility God thing? " I seem to have got this big, extended family," he says bemused, as though he found them under gooseberry bushes, "and I adore them." But sometimes the adoration has come after disputing both the paternity and the price of fatherhood.

Over the years, it's having children that's got Mick into most trouble, or, rather, the haggling over acknowledging and paying for them. The women were driven by the sense of injustice inherent in dealing with a fabulously rich father refusing to pay his whack. Marsha Hunt, who was offered £17 a week to support daughter Karis, said: "We're talking about a minute amount of money to someone who earns a lot." Bianca Jagger, who declared her marriage dead on the morning of her wedding when Mick suddenly produced a prenuptial agreement, called him a penny-pinching Scrooge" and said: "Throughout our married life, he and I literally lived out of a suitcase in a nomadic journey in his quest to avoid paying income tax." Jerry Hall once said mildly: "I believe that once you have made enough it's there to be spent, but Mick isn't like that." Even he was probably shaken by the tabloid onslaught that greeted his dirty fight with Jerry over the legitimacy of their marriage and, by implication, their children, but it is Mick who sees himself as the injured one. "It suits the Press to say I'm stingy. Actually I think I'm quite generous.

That doesn't mean you have to be stupid about it. There's a difference between being generous and being foolish. There's a line there somewhere. You have to know who to trust." Not being stupid, knowing whom to trust is a strategy that saw him leave the traditional path of ripped-off rock star for the pleasant meadows of multimillionairedom - £150 million is the most often quoted figure - thanks to the financial housekeeping of Prince Rupert Loewenstein and Mick's own controlled canniness. It was Mick Jagger who masterminded the huge road shows that form the foundation of the Stones' fortunes. It isn't cool to know how to manage money, but Mick is really good at it. He knows, too, how to spend it on investments that increase in value rather than on women. Other rock stars might blow fortunes on drugs, crooked accountants and overdue taxes. Mick spends his on houses and holidays, art and travel. "I'm a bit on and off with my art-buying and collecting. But I love looking at things, and I've bought some 19th century paintings, genre paintings and turnofthe-century photographs. But, then, I buy new things too.

I'm not a very organised collector." So, the velvet-clad prince of darkness has become a permapleatfaced grandfather who is in danger of turning into a sad old man who lusts after girls young enough to be his daughter, discarded by his wife, labelled a skinflint by exgirlfriends, tagged a meanie by ex-Rolling Stones, such as Bill Wyman ("Mick has a phenomenal faculty for forgetting the contribution of others"), called embarrassing by his children. Perhaps Jagger should lose his cool status. So, why do I notice that I have a soppy smile on my face as I watch Being Mick, the documentary that presents Mick to us as Mick wants us to see him? Can it possibly be that the huge charm offensive he is currently engaged in is actually working on me? Is the deference, the idolisation, the sheer respect that seems to greet Mick Jagger wherever he goes in this film catching? Is the old devil about to pull off the trick he seems to manage with his many ex-wives and girlfriends: persuade us that, despite his flaws, he is as lovable, as cool as ever?

Mick, as ever, is much better to watch in action than to catch on the printed page. He makes being himself look like so much fun. As you watch the glimpses of riotous family holidays, antique-crowded houses, private jets and lunches in the sun, you can see why even the people who ought to be cross with him hang on in there, reluctant to miss out on the fun. Here's Mick, the hands-on dad, with toddler Gabriel, sympathising with nine-year-old Georgia about her chewed fingernails. "You're worried about something," he says solicitously. "You're worried about your schoolwork?" "Dad," sighs Georgia, "I just chew my nails." In the meantime, we see Elizabeth and Georgia, coaxed into the studio to help out, going "ooh, ooh, ooh" on a backing track, Jade laughingly pleading with him not to pick any girlfriends taller than her, and Elizabeth acting as her old dad's escort at Elton John's Venetian bash. "You'll have to tell me who everyone is," says her old dad, clinging on to her arm and asking everyone to tell her she's not under-dressed. "I forget everyone these days.

I always forget Geri Halliwell." We see enticing flashes of the Jaggers on holiday in Mustique, doing boat trips and fancy dress. We catch glimpses of the chateau in France and Mick and Jerry's At Home in Richmond, with Mick jamming and original rock-chick blondes like Jerry and Jo Wood all having a very good time among the oil paintings and 18th century cornices. Then there's Mick the hip rock star, stepping on and off jets as he flies round the world recording tracks with the musicians and producers who are going to reposition him for a younger market. He's joking with fellow rock veteran Pete Townshend about what it's really like on public transport. Mick never takes it. He's lunching with Bono on some attractive continental terrace. He's hanging with Lenny Kravitz and Wyclef Jean and talking of dashing songs off in an hour - though the days of the all-night session are over. Mick finds he's brightest after breakfast these days and we see him nipping home from a premiere to put his feet up and watch telly. Bless.

But, all in all, I think my soppy smile is not simply nostalgia because Mick and I are of an age (he's older). It's because he makes it look like a lot of fun to be Mick Jagger. Doesn't he worry about ageing, someone asks. Better, says Mick, to carry on enjoying life than be an old fart sitting in an armchair moaning about the Sixties. I like the look of the lively, extended family, the gorgeous houses, the "it's-Monday-so-it-mustbe-LA" schedule, the hot invitations, the money. So, it's Mick the Renaissance Man. "I love doing it [touring with the Stones]," he says, "but I love doing other things as well." Things like another raft of film projects, yet another giant Rolling Stones 40th anniversary tour. He is Mick the charming aesthete. "Mick has a beautiful curiosity about the world," says his friend Christopher Gibbs. He is Mick the host who, according to Sabrina Guinness, "has an incredible knack for entertaining everyone whether they are three or 93". He is Mick the Mercurial Mimic.

I wonder if Kate Winslet is still speaking to him after the cruelly funny, wounded luvvie way he read her apology for not appearing at the Enigma premiere because of her marriage breakdown. "I can't stand it, I can't stand it," he sobs, a la Kate, adding tartly, "What about that Nicole Kidman? She did it." Mick Jagger wouldn't let an audience down, and that's the great paradox of Jagger, 40 years a rock star. He is meant to be His Satanic Majesty's representative on earth, the epitome of everything decadent, unpredictable and chaotic, but he's actually a pro through and through. He's still susceptible to women and he'll never throw his money around but he's in control. And he's fun to be around. And that's cool. Being Mick is on Channel 4 next Thursday at 9pm. Strictly's Jerry Hall explains how Mick Jagger has been helping with her sexy dance moves | Daily Mail Online comments Jerry Hall won’t stop telling me how happy she is, when I’m sure she’s actually as miserable as a seaside donkey.

After ‘the happiest two years of my life’, her love affair with Australian property developer Warwick Hemsley is over. She says this, quite matter-of-factly, before listing ‘the little things’ that make her happy instead, such as ‘the way it feels to get into a warm bath’. Despite her tough times lately, Jerry Hall has picked herself up and looks fabulous on Strictly Come Dancing Which can’t be quite the same as getting into a warm bed with the man she had said was ‘The One’? ‘Funny how fate keeps happening. They’re The One, then they’re The One before The One.’ She roars with laughter, but I don’t think she really finds it funny. Jerry was, after all, head-over-heels in love with 56-year-old Warwick and didn’t care who knew it. ‘I just think I’m so lucky at my stage in life to have found someone so lovely and to love someone and feel loved – it’s a beautiful thing,’ she said at the beginning of the summer. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share What happened? ‘The distance was so difficult, what with my son [14-year-old Gabriel] at school and my work,’ she says.

‘Warwick’s just had two grandchildren who are in Australia so we’ve been having a break for about a month now, but I don’t regret anything. I had the happiest two years of my life. It was fabulous. ‘He’s a lovely man and it was a wonderful lesson to see relationships could be so easy – so peaceful and non-dramatic.’ Again Jerry laughs. Again, I’m not too sure why. ‘I think crying over spilt milk and being all moody and sulky is really bratty behaviour,’ she says. ‘You shouldn’t do it because it’s going to drag you and everyone else around you down. Gabriel, the youngest of their four children, was just a year old when she discovered Brazilian model Luciana Morad was carrying Mick's baby ‘I’m quite stoic about these things. To me, it’s not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men’s company, but I don’t feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate.

But my life goes on whether they’re there or not.’ Jerry, 56, is after all a trouper, a pick-yourself-up-and-dust-yourself-downer. Remember when she finally gave up on that ‘dangerous sexual predator’ (her words) Mick Jagger after 23 years of his serial philandering? Gabriel, the youngest of their four children, was just a year old when she discovered Brazilian model Luciana Morad was carrying Mick’s baby. Did she wallow in self-pity? Did she hell. No, Jerry stripped off in a West End production of The Graduate, as if to say, ‘Come and see what you’re missing, Jumping Jack Flash!’ Today, she’s preparing to dazzle on Strictly Come Dancing with partner Anton du Beke. She tells me her agent ‘caught her at a weak moment’ and ‘talked her into it’. But, again, I’m not too sure. She’s lost 10lb since rehearsals began and looks fabulous. ‘We’re doing the cha-cha-cha now, which is very flirtatious,’ she says, stretching out her vowels in that seductive, Texan way of hers.

‘I’m so surprised how much I like it,’ she says. ‘I wake up really happy. It’s odd. I feel like that dancing penguin in Happy Feet.’ Which is certainly better than ‘a plodding mule trudging through mud’ – judge Craig Revel Horwood’s comment about Anton’s fiery partner from last year’s Strictly, Nancy Dell’Olio. ‘I adore Anton,’ Jerry continues. ‘He’s very elegant in all his ways – his dancing, his manners. He’s old-school Hollywood, like Fred Astaire. He’s been building up my confidence. He says, “You’ve been learning it so quickly and you bring so much pleasure to it.”’ Jerry lights up like one of the flashbulbs that have followed her for much of her life as she says this. But she is, in truth, all over the place at the moment and, eventually, during this deeply personal interview the tears come when she talks openly for the first time about the twin she lost while carrying her son James, now 27. ‘To keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.’ Jerry adapted it to her liking.

‘I said I’d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.’ ‘It had died before it was born but I had to carry it to full term, and I wasn’t able to grieve because it was a secret,’ she says. ‘So I had a lot of mixed emotions. We [Mick, Jerry and their eldest daughter Elizabeth, now 28] were still travelling around the world because Mick was busy with the Stones, and it was pretty terrible. 'Then I had to lay down for a long time because I had a blood clot where the placenta was connected to the baby that had died.’ I can only imagine how terrible ‘pretty terrible’ was; having to lay in bed with the baby inside her that had died at five months, waiting to go to full term for the baby that lived – and hearing stories of Mick’s dalliances. ‘Yeah, it was a nightmare. I had a very tough time. James and Elizabeth were only 18 months apart, so two children are quite tiring. I might have even had some kind of postnatal depression, because I was quite confused. I don’t know. I was...’ The tears are running down her cheeks now.

‘It’s funny,’ she sniffs but doesn’t mean funny ha-ha. ‘Yeah, bad things happen in life sometimes. I don’t really enjoy talking about it. Anyway, I think I’m lucky because I’ve got four healthy children. When each of them was born it was the most exciting, happy, glorious moment in the world. Nothing’s more magical than that. You just fall in love. I breastfed for a year so I was really into it.’ 'Anton has been making me laugh so much' says Jerry of her dance partner Jerry shines as she talks about this, but she can’t stop the tears falling. ‘Anyway, it was such a long time ago. James is 27 now and he’s touring America with his band Turbogeist. I guess some moments stay with us and they slip out in funny ways.’ Jerry’s had a particularly rough ride in the past few months. Not only is her relationship with ‘The One’ over but her mum Marjorie, 88, who has been a constant strength in Jerry’s life, is seriously ill in a nursing home and the prognosis isn’t good.

‘I spent the summer between France and visiting my family in Texas because of Mum’s illness,’ she says. ‘She had a stroke, then she had an operation and got heart failure, and now she can’t walk because she’s got oedema [excess fluid]. It’s really sad she’s in a nursing home so I’ve been visiting her a lot lately. She was always so active so it’s a bit of a shock. Jerry has had a rough time lately, following the break-up with 'The One' and her mother's illness 'My stepfather – her husband – still visits twice a day. It’s such a lovely place. It looks like a country club. She says she’s quite happy because she’s got a clean room, a clean bed, she has three nice meals a day and lots of company. They met ballroom dancing, which is really funny. They got really good at it and won a couple of awards, so they’re so excited about me doing this.’ She flashes a megawatt smile. Marjorie was a strong, matriarchal figure who taught her girls – Jerry is one of five – to appear sunny, glamorous and, whatever life threw at them, cherish hope.

There wasn’t a great deal else in their Texan home. Their father, John, returned from the Second World War with a medal for heroism and undiagnosed post-traumatic stress. He worked as a lorry driver and developed an addiction to amphetamines and beating up his daughters. Jerry left home at 16 for Paris with her mother’s blessing and words of advice ringing in her ears, ‘To keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.’ Jerry adapted it to her liking. ‘I said I’d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.’ She worked as a model in Paris, where she was talent-spotted by a fashion agent and was soon gracing the covers of glossy magazines. At 19, she posed for the cover of a Roxy Music album, Siren, and became engaged to the band’s lead singer, Bryan Ferry – an engagement that ended when Mick talent-spotted her for himself. In her autobiography My Life In Pictures, Jerry reflected on those years and her heartbreak when Mick wasn’t home for the birth of Gabriel in December 1997.

Shortly afterwards a newspaper reported that Brazilian model, Luciana Morad, was pregnant with his baby. It was the final straw. Jerry says, ‘Around the time of my divorce I went to see a therapist just to get my head together. I said, “I never want to make this mistake again.” It was very helpful because they’re not part of the story and they give very good advice about what would be a healthy way to deal with things for your children. I’d tried so hard to hold the family together. Mick was never brutal, but I do think if you’ve had a difficult childhood like me, then you need help with building your boundaries and knowing how to protect yourself. Mick was never brutal but I do think if you've had a difficult childhood like me, then you need help with building your boundaries and knowing how to protect yourself ‘It took me a while to learn that. Mick’s infidelities were a form of pain. When I first knew Mick there was a lot of excess, and excess is never good. He was dabbling with heroin. He wasn’t a real addict, but I said to him, “I can’t be with someone who takes drugs. I can’t do that.

I don’t see the necessity. It’s illegal and you shouldn’t need that.” I thought if I could get him to quit heroin, I could get him to give up girls as well. ‘I had a lot of hope. When you give up on hope it’s very sad. Mick’s a wonderful person. He’s funny, brilliantly talented and quite easy to live with – except for the infidelity. He never annoyed me. When you’re with someone for 23 years you build a whole life. 'Then you separate and you’ve got to find a new life – or find yourself rebalance. I never felt it was my fault, but I think with any divorce there’s a sense of failure. That was a nightmare but a long time ago too – 14 years ago. Mick’s a wonderful person. He’s funny, brilliantly talented and quite easy to live with – except for the infidelity. He never annoyed me. When you’re with someone for 23 years you build a whole life 'We’re very good friends now. It’s amazing, I actually like chatting with him. He calls most days. He’s been giving me advice about which songs I should dance to – which music.

He’s so funny.’ The tears are gone. ‘I just thank God I’m so lucky. Footloose and fancy free,’ she says. ‘The world’s my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment everything is happy. Yeah, I’m sad I broke up with my boyfriend. It was very illogical, with the distances we were travelling, but what a lovely guy. I’m just waiting for fate to happen again. It’s a funny line: fate keeps happening. But I really like laughing at the moment. Anton’s been making me laugh so much.’ And I can’t help hoping he’ll be making her laugh for many weeks to come. Strictly Come Dancing, tonight, 6.30pm, BBC1. Who is Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch's new wife? - CNN.com Who is Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch's new wife? By Todd Leopold , CNN Updated 10:44 AM ET, Fri March 4, 2016 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.

Photos: Surprising celebrity couples The Internet has been startled to hear that comedian Jon Lovitz, 58, and model Jessica Lowndes, 27, say they're engaged. (That's a 31-year age difference, if you're counting.) Lowndes later hinted that their coupling was an April Fools' joke. Here's a look at some other surprising celeb pairings. Hide Caption 1 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, 84, and former model Jerry Hall, 59, married Friday, March 4. This is Murdoch's fourth marriage. Hall was previously in a lengthy relationship with rocker Mick Jagger, with whom she has four children. Hide Caption 2 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples He's a little bit country; she's a little bit rock: "The Voice" judges Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are dating, his rep confirmed to E! in 2015. Both were previously married to other musicians: She to Gavin Rossdale of Bush, he to country star Miranda Lambert. Hide Caption John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan reportedly ended their three-year relationship in August 2014.

Hide Caption 4 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Sofia Vergara moved on from an engagement with Nick Loeb to dating "True Blood" star Joe Manganiello. The two were married in November 2015. Hide Caption 5 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Actors Michelle Rodriguez -- who was previously linked to model Cara Delevingne -- and Zac Efron stirred relationship rumors when they were spotted kissing on a boat in Italy in July 2014 but reportedly only lasted two months as a couple. Hide Caption 6 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Actor Richard Gere and "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi were an item in 2014 before splitting after six months. Hide Caption 7 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Melissa Gilbert dropped a bombshell on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" in January: she used to date Tom Cruise waaaay back in the day. "Actually, when I dated him, he was Tom Mapother still," Gilbert told "Watch What Happens Live" host Andy Cohen. "It was when he first moved to Los Angeles, and I think I was ...16? 17?

I did not have sex with him. We made out, but honestly, there was no sex." Intriguing! Hide Caption 8 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Sharon Osbourne said in 2013 that she and former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno had a "flingy-wingy" when she was 25. (It was before her marriage to Ozzy Osbourne.) Hide Caption 9 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg famously dated in 1993 . The two played on-screen love interests in the comedy "Made In America," and they were soon moving the romance off screen as well. Hide Caption 10 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Cher dropped a bomb during an interview with Bravo's Andy Cohen in June 2013: Not only had she hooked up with Tom Cruise when he was just a budding young star in the early '80s, but she could report that he was one of her top five lovers of all time. Cher, do tell!

Hide Caption 11 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Before Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz and Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake was attached to another star: Fergie, before the Black Eyed Peas. Hide Caption 12 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Whitney Houston and Ray J had an affectionate bond that fueled endless rumors that they were a pair following Houston's 2007 breakup with Bobby Brown. Hide Caption 13 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Let's time-travel back to 1989, when New Kids on the Block wasn't an aging boy band but rather the hottest thing on, well, the block. At the time, it did make sense that Danny Wood would fall for another rising star: Halle Berry. Hide Caption 14 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Perhaps it's because of the timing -- Matt Damon's career was just taking off with "Good Will Hunting" when he hooked up with Winona Ryder -- but it's easy to forget these two were a serious couple between 1997 and 2000.

Hide Caption 15 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Yes, before Kanye, Kris or Reggie, Kim Kardashian apparently had a little something going with Nick Lachey after his 2005 divorce from Jessica Simpson. Lachey told Details magazine that they had a date in 2006, but he thinks it was a ploy for Kardashian to be seen with an MTV-famous boy band member. Hide Caption 16 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples John Stamos has fond memories of dating Paula Abdul in the late '80s, just as he began starring on "Full House." "She was so adorable; she was America's sweetheart," Stamos told Ellen DeGeneres in 2009 . "She was the biggest star in the world ... and we had the time of our lives." Hide Caption 17 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples Glenn Close and Woody Harrelson are said to have become romantic partners for a spell in 1991 , when they performed in the play "Brooklyn Laundry" together.

Hide Caption 18 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples When Billy Corgan and Tila Tequila got cozy on the red carpet in 2009, the best word to describe most people's reaction was "confused." For whatever reason, the Smashing Pumpkins star seemed to be enjoying the company of reality minx Tequila at Bravo's 2009 "A-List Awards." Hide Caption 19 of 20 Photos: Surprising celebrity couples In the case of Lisa Kudrow and Conan O'Brien, it seems that like attracted like. According to Kudrow , she and O'Brien dated for a bit prior to her acting career before realizing they were better off as friends. But O'Brien's apparently been a great pal to Kudrow: She's credited him with helping her launch her career. Hide Caption Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch's wife, has had an active life She dated Bryan Ferry, married Mick Jagger, was a notable model (CNN) If Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch's new wife, looks familiar, it's no wonder.

The willowy ex-model was not only once married to Mick Jagger, but she's appeared on album covers, been the face of cosmetics and used to pop up on David Letterman's old NBC talk show. Here are five things you may not know about Mrs. Murdoch: 1. She's from Texas, which is obvious from her voice. She was born in Mesquite in 1956 and has a twin sister named Terry. Jerry isn't a nickname: According to the UK site The Genealogist , her truck-driver father wanted boys. Jerry Hall grew up tall -- she stands 6-foot even, which means she's taller than the 5-foot-10 Murdoch -- and became a model when she was discovered by a scout on the French Riviera on her first trip to Europe, paid for with money she received after treatment for a car crash. She was about to turn 17. Read More She's also never lost her drawl. A 2010 Guardian article described her voice as "full of unpredictable stresses." Letterman used to have great fun talking to her in the '80s. 2.

She was one of the leading models of the '70s and was in demand for many years. Her career took off immediately, with her first session conducted by famed photographer Helmut Newton. She appeared on the cover of UK Vogue six times in 1975-76 alone , as well as covers of Cosmopolitan, Interview, French Elle and -- in the mid-'80s -- Australian Playboy. She's also been in ads for Dior , Revlon and Thierry Mugler's Angel perfume , the latter in 1995, when she was in her mid-40s. 3. Before Jagger, there was Bryan Ferry. Bryan Ferry, the suave lead singer of Roxy Music, met Hall in 1975 and was immediately taken with her. She appeared on the cover of the band's 1975 album "Siren" and in the video for his solo song "Let's Stick Together." He even, according to some sources, gave her an engagement ring. But the romance didn't last. She started seeing Jagger while she was still with Ferry. The breakup with Ferry was painful, she wrote.

"Mick just had this charm, and I was really crazy about him. I was so fickle," she said, according to a Washington Post profile . "I went back to Bryan, but when you have an affair with someone you care about, it's never the same. It ended up quite badly." 4. Jagger was a good father. Not so much of a husband. The two were together for more than a decade before getting married in Bali in 1990, a marriage that was later annulled . The couple had four children: Elizabeth, James, Georgia May and Gabriel. She was asked to write a memoir about her life but ended up returning the advance when the publisher decided it wasn't gossipy enough. "I just can't remember bad things. I guess I'm just lucky!" she told the UK Evening Standard in 2014 . "He has wonderful relationships with each of the children. He takes a huge interest in their education, and he's very keen on physical fitness, good manners. He's quite old-fashioned in his way," she said. But Jagger's eye for other women finally did their marriage in. "Mick is a restless one, a bit of an alley cat," she told the Guardian.

She knew it was over after the birth of Gabriel, their youngest. "I thought, 'Right, done that, he's served his purpose.' " 5. She's been in a reality show. Sure, these days, who hasn't? Hall's was called "Kept." It premiered on VH1 in 2005 and lasted all of 10 episodes. The idea was that Hall would interview 12 men and then pick one to become, essentially, her boy toy. The winner was a man named Seth Frye , who told a South African website that he won $100,000 but never saw anything else afterward -- including Hall. The point is academic now, thanks to Murdoch. T.R.O.T. (London 2010) Hope everyone had a great time in London and didn't feel too exhausted when returning home! We were lucky with the weather and rather chuffed too that we we didn't leave anyone behind! Congrats to Hilary and Elizabeth for comming up trumps on the quiz.

(...and thanks to Hilary for these great photos - taken from the LONDON EYE) Thanks to Axe Vale coaches, Janet and Emma who baked delicious biscuits, and Zoe and Mary for the bottle donations for the quiz and ofcourse to Sheila and Edwin for the use of their campground field for all of our vehicles, this was a great help as we could all get on and off the coach safetly avoiding the Wells Road traffic. All in all we raised in excess of £230 from ticket sales, the quiz and onboard refreshments (with all proceeds going towards the village Hall) In a bid to save paper I didn't print out the quiz answers....so here they are with the chocolate ones at the end, but before the quiz answers how about the biggest question of all.......WHERE NEXT? The official TROTTER’s Quiz …… QUESTIONS and ANSWERS What did Dr John S. Pemberton concoct in his backyard in 1886? Coca-cola Who was the youngest president of the USA? Theodore Roosevelt Who made the first telephone call to the moon? Richard Nixon Which people made Saddleworth Moor famous? Ian Brady and Myra Hindley Where are the Scottish Crown jewels held?

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Question: Who said on splitting from Mick Jagger “I’m sure he can find someone else to be unfaithful to soon”?
Answer: Jerry Hall